On Fri, 2020-09-04 at 10:02 -0700, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:50 AM Mark Wendt <wendt.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 12:41 PM Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com > > > > > wrote > > > ...So, to make LinuxCNC nearly universal, hide it inside a product that > > is > > > slick and easy to install and use. No one should have to look at HAL > > files > > > or know it runs on Linux. They can learn, but if learning is required it > > > will always remain a niche product. > > > > > > > Great stuff! So, when are you going to get started on this project? > > > > I wrote that to show why it will never happen. But also to make a point > that there does exist a pattern in the way complex niche products become > mainstream. Usually, another layer is built around it. PCs were kind > of rare until Windows covered over the DOS command line.
This is questionable. I used a PC with UNIX in 1984 and all our clients had UNIX. No graphics interface, only command line, databases and ad-hoc graphic programs. This was before Windows, we had UNIX and DOS in dual-boot on some PCs, UNIX on the servers. However the Apple Mac already had a graphics interface :-) _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
